Letters From The Wasteland

Letters From The Wasteland

It's All Up To The Supreme Court Now

Forgive me if I'm not convinced that they'll uphold the Constitution against Donald Trump's lawless gulag agreement.

Thad Zajac
Apr 07, 2025
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The term “gulag” came about from the acronym for Glavnoye Upravleniye LAGerey, the Main Camp Administration of the NKVD (Soviet secret police predecessor to the KGB). It was where millions of Soviets died in labor camps, disappeared from their homes, jobs and families, almost never to see the light of day again. The most notorious of these was Vorkuta, …

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